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I've noticed for a while now that no matter how powerful the computer I'm on but when typing it can start to slow down and eventually the lag is so bad I can type a whole sentence before the letters appear on the screen! lol Usually when it's a fairly big reply.

I have experienced this on my laptop but that happens if the resources are getting hammered in the back ground. i.e. high CPU and memory utilisation.

Kill some apps clear your cache or upgrade to the fasting thing out there just for HK.

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Can't imagine that's the problem, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, i7-3770K, 16GB DDR3 PC3-10600, GTX760 with 2GB Ram and Sandisk SSD Drive. I can open and run other apps fine when the slow down happens but will keep my eye out for anything unusual. Could AVAST be interfering at all somehow whilst it's autosaving?

That's an odd one Graham, I haven't experienced it whatsoever and use a number of devices to access the site on a daily basis. Is anyone else having this issue?

Any idea when it first started mate? Want to see if I can pinpoint it to after a particular bit of work done to the site.

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Doing a test now on a lesser powered computer. i3 I think it is. There are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.
Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

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Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.
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Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Can't imagine that's the problem, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, i7-3770K, 16GB DDR3 PC3-10600, GTX760 with 2GB Ram and Sandisk SSD Drive. I can open and run other apps fine when the slow down happens but will keep my eye out for anything unusual. Could AVAST be interfering at all somehow whilst it's autosaving?

Was thinking about it and if it were resources would it not speed up again once it was finished doing whatever it was doing? It never speeds up until you've submitted your reply then it goes back to normal.

This is where it happened this morning on the less powerful computer which is: i3-2120, 4GB Ram, Windows 7 64-bit, Geforce GT 530 1GB Ram, regular 7,200rpm HD.

Can't imagine that's the problem, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, i7-3770K, 16GB DDR3 PC3-10600, GTX760 with 2GB Ram and Sandisk SSD Drive. I can open and run other apps fine when the slow down happens but will keep my eye out for anything unusual. Could AVAST be interfering at all somehow whilst it's autosaving?

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Yo, I run a 3770k, 16GB RAM, 760 GTX (not kidding), and use Firefox without any issues. I do use Chrome and IE regularly on the site for testing, but admittedly not enough to perhaps note the issue.

Doing a test now on a lesser powered computer. i3 I think it is. There are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.
Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

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Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.
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Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

Doing a test now, there are no other applications open just now and it's running just fine. I can see that the AVAST icon is operating though as if it's scanning something. Checking Task Manager and everything looks fine. Will start copy and pasting this text and see what happens. It's just started to auto save now.

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We are getting a very slight slowdown but every character still keeps up to speed.

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All seems good. Feel free to delete this post. It's a tiny bit slower but nothing like before.

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Thinking about it, I have managed to get Safari to crash on the iPad a couple of times when writing huge chunks of text, it hangs, and then decides to crash - luckily the auto-save feature normally bails me out - I like to blame that on Apple, but chances are there is some kind of memory leak or script stuck in a loop I haven't yet diagnosed.

Was thinking about it and if it were resources would it not speed up again once it was finished doing whatever it was doing? It never speeds up until you've submitted your reply then it goes back to normal.

This is where it happened this morning on the less powerful computer which is: i3-2120, 4GB Ram, Windows 7 64-bit, Geforce GT 530 1GB Ram, regular 7,200rpm HD.

I'll keep task manager open on the performance section so if it happens again I can check the processors and memory.

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Testing again and seeing what happens if I do half a reply and then come back to it later on, so leaving it to auto save etc.

Left if a while and it's still working fine. Will remove the quote above now.

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I personally wouldn't think it's related to the auto-save, that's a simple bit of AJAX and just polls on a set interval - I think it's another script which is processing without dumping its load at any point - like leaving a tap on in a sink, or just stuck in a loop.

Keep thoughts coming in, I'll start doing some device/scenario testing when I get a chance.

For whatever reason you're operating on 2 cores out of 4, with the other two disabled. At no point did you hit peak utilisation either which means it's not a resource issue. That means script or browser issue

I'll give it more time when I can mate, but I'm struggling to debug it,

They aren't disabled, they are being used, it's just that the threads running on those cores aren't demanding much CPU.

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They're parked, a feature introduced back with the early Core series Intel processors, it's just for power economy, the cores are re-activated when they're needed - I was saying for whatever reason they're "disabled" as I'm surprised Firefox wasn't utilising all the threads. For example I've got the same CPU and I'm idling 3-5% usage but with all threads active.

No worries here , however look at your Maximum CPU frequency graph it peaking out! it maxing out do you use this machine for gaming ? I would try setting windows to balanced mode in the power setting and check.

It's purely a work computer with some graphic design, but I had nothing else open at the time and had even disabled the antivirus. Was using IE11 and not Firefox, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

I've binned the computer today because I was having issues with it from performance to networking and now have a fairly decent setup. Was going to build it myself but just don't have the time, deadlines to meet etc so got them to build it for me. Will see how it goes with the new PC

I have a Sony Xperia Z and experience the lagging txt all the time which I put down to my phone? I find deleting txt is even worse than writing it and can write a whole sentence before actually shows on the screen :-/ Also the smileys don't work for me either???